Gauri Gill b. 1970

Born in 1970 in Chandigarh, India, Gauri Gill is an immersive photographer whose practice is driven by diverse and collaborative inquiries into rural, indigenous, marginalized and diasporic Indian communities.

She has exhibited her work widely within India and around the world. In 2022, her first major survey exhibition opened at the Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt and travelled to the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk in January 2023. Gill’s work has been shown at The Photographers’ Gallery, London (2024); Ishara Art Foundation, Dubai (2024); Victoria and Albert Museum, London (2023); BAMPFA, Berkeley (2020); the 58th Venice Biennale (2019); Chobimela, Dhaka (2019);  MoMA PS1, New York (2018); Documenta 14, Athens and Kassel (2017); 7th Moscow Biennale (2017); Prospect 4, New Orleans (2017); Centre Pompidou, Paris (2017); Kochi-Muziris Biennale (2016); The Wiener Library, London (2014); and Whitechapel Gallery, London (2010), among other places. She has also consistently exhibited at locations outside of the art world, including public libraries, rural schools and non-profit institutions.

In 2025, Gill’s work will be exhibited at the Tate Modern, London, UK, as well as the Kunstmuseum Moritzburg Halle, Saale, Germany.

Her work is in the collections of prominent institutions worldwide, including the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Tate Museum, London; Smithsonian Institution, Washington and Fotomuseum, Winterthur.

Gill received the prestigious Prix Pictet Photography and Sustainability Award in 2023. In 2022, Gill was the Inaugural Roberta Denning Visiting Artist at Stanford University, California; in 2018, she was a recipient of an India Today Art Award, New Delhi; in 2013, she was Creative Arts Fellow at the Rockefeller Foundation in Bellagio; in 2011, she was awarded the Grange Prize, Canada’s foremost award for photography; and in 2002, she received the Fifty Crows Award (formerly called the Mother Jones) in San Francisco.

Gill has recently published two books with Edition Patrick Frey about her collaborations with rural artists, titled Acts of Appearance (2022) and Fields of Sight (2023).

The artist lives and works in New Delhi, India.